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2012 Players Guide
Tag Archives: Cash Attack
FactCheck’s Post-Election Conference
In episode 41 of our podcast, we give you some highlights from our post-election conference on political advertising by outside groups. [podcast]http://factcheck.org/Images/image/radio/FactCheckRadio_episode41(2).mp3[/podcast] For more on this episode, see: Cash Attack Conference
Posted in FactCheck Radio
Tagged Cash Attack, outside groups, podcast, political advertising
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Cash Attack Conference
On Monday, factcheck.org hosted a post-election conference on political advertising in the 2010 election by outside groups. Our liberal and conservative panelists played some TV ads to illustrate their points – and we couldn’t resist pointing out that we had found a few of them to be misleading. Here’s what …
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Outside Group Attacks Sestak on Terror Trials
The Republican Jewish Coalition says it is spending $1 million in the Pennsylvania Senate race on an ad attacking Democrat Joe Sestak for wanting to hold trials of alleged 9/11 terrorists "in our backyard" in Pennsylvania. But Sestak is not advocating holding terror trials in Pennsylvania. He said he would …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged Cash Attack, Joe Sestak, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Norm Coleman, Republican Jewish Coalition
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Toss-ups: Pennsylvania Cash Attack
Two independent groups are spending heavily in the Pennsylvania Senate race, and we find both are airing TV ads that go a bit too far: VoteVets.org, a left-leaning veterans group, is up with an ad that claims Republican Pat Toomey supports letting Wall Street …
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Posted in Articles
Tagged bank bailout, Cash Attack, Club for Growth, Joe Sestak, Pat Toomey, stimulus, votevets
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Commission on Hope, Growth and Opportunity
A Republican/pro-growth-leaning group headed by a Republican media consultant.
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Posted in Players Guide
Tagged Cash Attack, Commission on Hope Growth and Opportunity, Players Guide, Steve Powell
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Would Miller ‘Destroy’ Alaska’s Economy?
In Alaska, a new group founded and financed by for-profit native corporations falsely charges in an ad that Republican Senate nominee Joe Miller’s proposals "would destroy a third of Alaska’s economy" by erasing "our fair share of federal dollars." A conservative, Miller advocates less federal spending — but he hasn’t …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged Alaskans Standing Together, Cash Attack, Joe Miller, Lisa Murkowski
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American Future Fund
Republican-leaning group formed by Iowa political figures.
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60 Plus Association
Republican-leaning group that calls itself “the conservative alternative” to AARP.
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Posted in Players Guide
Tagged 60 Plus Association, Cash Attack, James L. Martin, Players Guide
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Public Notice (Bankrupting America)
Conservative-leaning group that focuses on federal spending.
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Posted in Players Guide
Tagged Bankrupting America, Cash Attack, Gretchen Hamel, Players Guide, Public Notice
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Super PAC for America
Conservative group formed by political strategist and TV commentator Dick Morris.
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